The Powerful Pollitzers

In October 1915, Anita Pollitzer marched in the famous suffrage parade down New York City’s Fifth Avenue.

Anita Pollitzer with Tennessee Representative John Houk, Knoxville Mayor Ernest Neal, and Representative Brooks [R. I. Johnson], outside the National Woman’s Party Tennessee Headquarters, in August 1920. With her persistence, Senator Harry Burns of Tennessee changed his vote on the 19th Amendment, allowing the bill to become law and granting women the right to vote.